Hacker News with Generative AI: Astrobiology

Were our blue oceans once green? (nagoya-u.ac.jp)
Scientists find evidence that our oceans used to be green, suggesting that this may be a sign of primitive life, including that on alien worlds.
The Ethics of Spreading Life in the Cosmos (centauri-dreams.org)
We keep trying to extend our reach into the heavens, but the idea of panspermia is that the heavens are actually responsible for us. Which is to say, that at least the precursor materials that allow life to emerge came from elsewhere, and did not originate on Earth.
SETI's hard steps and how to resolve them (centauri-dreams.org)
The idea of life achieving a series of plateaus, each of which is a long and perilous slog, has serious implications for SETI.
Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed (nature.com)
Fragments of the asteroid Bennu, carefully collected and ferried to Earth by a robotic spacecraft, contain the building blocks for life, NASA announced today.
Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed (nature.com)
Fragments of the asteroid Bennu, carefully collected and ferried to Earth by a robotic spacecraft, contain the building blocks for life, NASA announced today.
Can life emerge around a white dwarf? (centauri-dreams.org)
My curiosity about white dwarfs continues to be piqued by the occasional journal article, like a recent study from Caldon Whyte and colleagues reviewing the possibilities for living worlds around such stars.
Garden cress and cyanobacteria grow under simulated K dwarf starlight (cambridge.org)
Signs of two gases in clouds of Venus could indicate life, scientists say (theguardian.com)
Astrobiology Graphic Novel Series (nasa.gov)